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Table 3 Predictors of birth size among infants without birth defects – multiple linear regression

From: Maternal Fish Consumption and Infant Birth Size and Gestation: New York State Angler Cohort Study

 

Weight

Length

Head Circumference

Chest Circumference

Covariate

        
 

β Coefficient

95% CI

β Coefficient

95% CI

β Coefficient

95% CI

β Coefficient

95% CI

Duration of maternal fish consumption

        

   1–2 years

13.49

-41.42, 68.41

0.09

-0.21, 0.39

0.04

-0.15, 0.22

-0.16

-0.48, 0.16

   3–7 years

-14.45

-72.70, 43.80

0.12

-0.20, 0.44

-0.03

-0.23, 0.16

-0.29

-0.64, 0.06

   8+ years

-37.03

-96.66, 22.60

0.06

-0.27, 0.38

-0.15

-0.35, 0.05

-0.49

-0.87, -0.11

Male infant

117.04

79.91, 154.17

0.78

0.58, 0.98

0.56

0.43, 0.68

0.37

0.16, 0.59

Number of daily cigarettes

-14.79

-17.63, -11.95

-0.07

-0.08, -0.05

-0.02

-0.03, -0.01

-0.05

-0.06, -0.03

Parity

97.22

72.11, 122.34

0.23

0.09, 0.37

0.21

0.12, 0.29

0.37

0.23, 0.52

Placental infarction

-316.55

-511.55, -121.56

-1.57

-2.63, -0.51

  

-1.47

-2.56, -0.37

Gestation (weeks)

144.43

128.68, 160.17

0.56

0.47, 0.64

0.32

0.26, 0.37

0.49

0.40, 0.58

R-squared

0.21

0.14

0.11

0.17

    

n

2,079

2,022

2,137

1,050

    
  1. NOTE: Restricted to infants without birth defects noted in hospital delivery records (n = 2,247). Duration of maternal fish consumption refers to the number of years eating fish from Lake Ontario and its tributaries between 1955 and infant's year of birth. CI = confidence interval; n = sample size for each model